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Assembly Bill A2356

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Increases the number of members on the farm laborers wage board from three to five

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2025-A2356 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3541
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §674-a, Lab L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9223, S8562

2025-A2356 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the number of members on the farm laborers wage board from three to five; adds as members the commissioner of agriculture and markets and a member appointed by the Dean of the Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

2025-A2356 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2356
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the labor law, in relation to increasing the number of
   members on the farm laborers wage board from three to five
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 674-a of the labor law, as
 added by chapter 105 of the laws of 2019, are  amended  to  read  to  as
 follows:
   1.  Wage  board. The commissioner shall hereby convene a farm laborers
 wage board. The wage board shall be comprised of [three]  FIVE  members:
 one  representative  of  the  farm bureau, one representative of the New
 York State AFL-CIO, THE COMMISSIONER OF  AGRICULTURE  AND  MARKETS,  ONE
 MEMBER APPOINTED BY THE DEAN OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY'S COLLEGE OF AGRICUL-
 TURE  AND  LIFE  SCIENCES (CALS) and one member appointed by the commis-
 sioner, who shall be selected from the general public and designated  as
 chairperson.  The  wage board shall hold its first hearing no later than
 March first, two thousand twenty. The members of  the  board  shall  not
 receive  a  salary  or  other compensation, but shall be paid actual and
 necessary traveling expenses while engaged in the performance  of  their
 duties.
   2. Organization. [Two-thirds] THREE-FIFTHS of the members of the board
 shall  constitute a quorum. The chairperson may from time to time formu-
 late rules governing the manner in which the wage board  shall  function
 and perform its duties under this article.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01819-01-5

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